Fear

Trump in the White House

Written by:
Bob Woodward

Narrated by:
Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
470

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
414

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
409

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence.

For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Point Made in First Half Hour....

Girl, Wash Your Face

Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Written by:
Rachel Hollis

Narrated by:
Rachel Hollis

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
834

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
738

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
738

As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the 20 lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively.

Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in
You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up twenty-seven bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word.

In
Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.

I'll definitely listen to this again.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1

Written by:
J.K. Rowling

Narrated by:
Jim Dale

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1,188

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1,090

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1,092

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.

Superb

Crazy Rich Asians

Written by:
Kevin Kwan

Narrated by:
Lynn Chen

Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
352

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
315

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
314

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in five seconds. Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself?

In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.

Stephen R. Covey's book,
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.

In the first biography of the Tragically Hip, Michael Barclay talks to dozens of the band’s peers and friends about not just the Hip’s music, but about the opening bands, the American albatross, the band’s role in Canadian culture, and Gord Downie’s role in reconciliation with Indigenous people. When Downie announced he had terminal cancer and decided to take the Hip on the road one more time, the tour became another Terry Fox moment; this time, Canadians got to witness an embattled hero reach the finish line.

Loved the band, loved the book!

Find You in the Dark

A Novel

Written by:
Nathan Ripley

Narrated by:
Corey Brill

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
13

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4 out of 5 stars
11

For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn't take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs. Detective Sandra Whittal sees the situation differently.

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

definitely worth it

Washington Black

Written by:
Esi Edugyan

Narrated by:
Dion Graham

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
45

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.

Great Read!

Station Eleven

Written by:
Emily St. John Mandel

Narrated by:
Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
77

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
71

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
71

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse,
Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Fan. Friggin. Tastic

Beirut Hellfire Society

Written by:
Rawi Hage

Narrated by:
Ali Momen

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
7

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
6

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
6

It is 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon, partway through that country's Civil War. On a torn-up street in the city's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father meets a sudden and untimely death, Pavlov is approached by a colorful member of the mysterious Hellfire Society - a secret group to which his father had belonged. The Society's purpose is to arrange burial or cremation for those who for various reasons have been outcast and abandoned by family, clergy, and state. Pavlov becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and fading community, bearing witness to its enduring rituals as well as its inevitable decline.

So dark

Girl, Wash Your Face

Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Written by:
Rachel Hollis

Narrated by:
Rachel Hollis

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
834

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
738

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
738

As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the 20 lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively.

Mostly for moms and people with religious beliefs

Indian Horse

A Novel

Written by:
Richard Wagamese

Narrated by:
Jason Ryll

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
180

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
171

Story

5 out of 5 stars
169

Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" (
New York Times).

Moving Story

The Boat People

Written by:
Sharon Bala

Narrated by:
Athena Karkanis

Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
109

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
105

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
105

By the winner of
The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident,
The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

Acclaimed journalist, activist, and best-selling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and "brand bullies". From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half century - the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say no.

Avoid audio version if possible

Seven Fallen Feathers

Written by:
Tanya Talaga

Narrated by:
Michaela Washburn

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
56

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
47

Story

5 out of 5 stars
47

In 1966, 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called, and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city.

A book for deep reflection

Fear

Trump in the White House

Written by:
Bob Woodward

Narrated by:
Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
470

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
414

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
409

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence.

What a ride!

Transcription

A Novel

Written by:
Kate Atkinson

Narrated by:
Fenella Woolgar

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Juliet Armstrong is a dissatisfied radio producer in a 1950s London that is recovering from the war as much as she is. During World War Two, Juliet was conscripted into service, transcribing conversations between an MI5 agent and a ring of suspected German sympathizers. The seemingly dull work quickly plunged Juliet into a treacherous world of code words and secret meetings where Juliet herself was sent into the field. These moments of intrigue and romance feel like a lifetime ago. But as Juliet and the rest of London find ways to return to normal, her routine is upended by an encounter with a mysterious man from her past life.

Excellent

Rosewater

Written by:
Tade Thompson

Narrated by:
Bayo Gbadamosi

Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1

Story

3 out of 5 stars
1

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London....

Consistently excellent writing and narration

I Know You Know

A Novel

Written by:
Gilly Macmillan

Narrated by:
Steve Brand,
Steve West,
Imogen Church

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
2

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2

Twenty years ago, 11-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger. For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. The loose ends of the police investigation consume him so much that he decides to return to Bristol in search of answers. Hoping to uncover new evidence and to encourage those who may be keeping long-buried secrets to speak up, Cody starts a podcast to record his findings.

Nobody Cares

Essays

Written by:
Anne T. Donahue

Narrated by:
Anne T. Donahue

Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
6

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
4

Story

4 out of 5 stars
4

From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your 20s and 30s. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue’s debut book offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend.

The Indignities of Being a Woman

Written by:
Merrill Markoe,
Megan Koester

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
10

Story

5 out of 5 stars
10

The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind. By carefully x-raying areas such as body image, marriage, mental illness, fashion, and politics, this audiobook examines what it was like to be a woman in the past versus what it’s like now, when women are constantly told equality between the sexes exists but reality proves otherwise.

5 out of 5 stars

An insightful read

By
Amazon Customer
on
2018-10-14

5 out of 5 stars

Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

Written by:
Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by:
Oliver Wyman

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
22

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
22

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
22

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people - Stephen calls them aspects - to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price. Then a company hires him to recover stolen property - a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past....

great short gripping stories

All Things Consoled

A Daughter's Memoir

Written by:
Elizabeth Hay

Narrated by:
Elizabeth Hay

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

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5 out of 5 stars
1

Jean and Gordon Hay were a colorful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvelous sense of humor, was superlatively frugal; nothing got wasted, not even maggoty soup. Gordon was a proud and ambitious schoolteacher with a terrifying temper, a deep streak of melancholy, and a devotion to flowers, cars, words, and his wife. As old age collides with the tragedy of living too long, these once ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on Lizzie, the so-called difficult child. By looking after them, she hopes to prove she can be a good daughter after all.

This book is one that I'll enjoy more than once.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Written by:
Lee Israel

Narrated by:
Jane Curtin

Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

0 out of 5 stars
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Before turning to her life of crime - running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI - Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she’d received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats.

Late Nights on Air

Written by:
Elizabeth Hay

Narrated by:
Elizabeth Hay

Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North form the center.

Whiskey in a Teacup

Written by:
Reese Witherspoon

Narrated by:
Reese Witherspoon

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
24

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
21

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
21

Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said a combination of beauty and strength made Southern women “whiskey in a teacup”. We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside, we’re strong and fiery. Reese’s Southern heritage informs her whole life, and she loves sharing the joys of Southern living with practically everyone she meets. She takes the South wherever she goes with bluegrass, big holiday parties, and plenty of Dorothea’s fried chicken.